Adia Victoria

Backwards Blues

Adia Victoria is from South Carolina. Her debut album, Beyond the Bloodhounds, is out now.

Perhaps the greatest irony is how a campaign fueled by outright lies reveals a deep-seated kernel of truth of what far too many Americans hold up as sacred: massive wealth, the sway of celebrity, branding, power, and greed.

I don't want to say that he's the president we deserve, yet here we are.

Lyrics

Look at all the signs
Waving in the breeze
Such a silly sight I never thought I'd see
I feel it in the air
It's washing over me
Soon enough the tide
Will drag us all to sea
So now we're traveling backwards
We are traveling backwards
He promised you the future
Say he got a plan
When it took his daddy's fortune
To make that boy a man
The truth is all around
Plain enough to see
He wanna turn the clock
Back on you and me
So now we're traveling backwards
We are traveling backwards
I might be okay if I couldn't say
He was speaking to half of us
I might be okay if I could say
There was one of them to trust
So now we're traveling backwards
We are traveling backwards
I must be okay if could say
He wasn't so dangerous